NEJM Audio Summary: Supplement to the New England Journal of Medicine, Vol. 355, No. 17.

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DATE : Wed, 25 Oct 2006 10:18:14 -0500
Entered in Database : 2006-10-25 15:18:14
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This summary covers the issue of October 26, 2006. Featured are articles on survival of patients with stage I lung cancer detected on CT screening, rituximab and intravenous immune globulin for pemphigus vulgaris, D-dimer testing to determine the duration of anticoagulation therapy, the genotype of the original Wiskott phenotype, and the reversal of myotonia in myotonic dystrophy; review articles on teaching professionalism in medical education and on pemphigus, bullous impetigo, and the staphylococcal scalded-skin syndrome; a video demonstrating basic laceration repair; a case report of a man with diabetes, hypogonadism, cirrhosis, arthralgias, and fatigue; and Perspective articles on the Institute of Medicine's recommendations for drug safety, on consumer-directed health care, and on lessons from the Wiskott-Aldrich syndrome.